Broom-holder.



No. 644.58l. Patented Mar. 6, I900. H. F. COOPER.

BROOM HOLDER.

(Application filed Apr. 29, 1899.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY F. COOPER, OF'APOLLO, PENNSYLVANIA.

BROOM-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent no. 644,581, dated March e,1906. Application filed April 29, 1899. Serial No. 715,019. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY F. COOPER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Apollo, in the county of Armstrong and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inBroom-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to broomholders, and can also be usedfor holding or supporting forks, shovels, and the like having nohandles.

The object of the invention is to provide an exceedingly cheap andsimple device which can be attached to a door, wall, or side of thehouse and which can be brought into use by simply inserting the handleof the broom, fork, or shovel into the same and permitting the weight ofthe broom or the force of gravity to do the rest.

With these objects in view the invention consists, essentially, of abase-plate adapted to be secured to a rigid object and a clamping orsupporting plate pivotally attached to the base-plate by means of aT-shaped shank adapted to fit a similarly-shaped socket produced in thebase-plate.

The invention consists also in certain de-. tails of construction andnovelties of combination, all of which will be fully describedhereinafter and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is aperspective View showing the practical application of my invention. Fig.2 is a side elevation of the device in use. Fig. 3 is an enlargedlongitudinal sectional view. Fig. 4 is a detail View of the baseplate.Fig. 5 is a detail view of the clamping or supporting plate. Fig. 6 isan enlarged detail view showing the T-shaped head arranged in the socketin the base-plate.

In carrying out my invention I employ a base-plate A, which may be ofany desired shape; but in practice I prefer to make the same oval andopen, as shown, and near the upper end of the plate is aforwardly-projecting boss A, the rear side of which is recessed, asshown at A and a vertical slot A is produced in the boss upon the underside and leads into the recess in the rear. The clamping or holdingplate B may be of any desired shape or form and has an opening B, whichmay also be of any desired shape; but in practice I prefer to make theplate and opening essentially heart-shaped or a shape closely re=sembling that of a heart, and at the upper end of said plate is aT-shaped head Biwhich is adapted to fit into the recess A at the rear ofthe boss A, the shank of the head passing into the slot when the headproper enters the recess, and as the base-plate is secured against adoor, wall, or other fiat surface it will be clearly undersood that itwill be impossible for the clamping-plate to become disengaged, althoughthe said clamping or holding plate can be moved up and down, using thehead as a pivot. The inner wall of the opening in the clamping-plate isat right angles to the plane of the plate, which renders the platereversible, as the edges formed by said wall upon either side of-theplate will engage with the handle and keep it from slipping out withoutregard to which side of the plate is uppermost. The wall forming thebase of the opening in the plate is preferably curved on each side ofthe center, and the central portion is provided with a diverging walledrecess,which forms at that portion of the plate two pointed teeth orprojections, which lie in the plane of the plate and readily enter thehandle, and thereby coact with the contracted walls at the apex of theopening to hold the handle from slipping.

As above described, the two parts comprising the holder may be formed bycasting them, which renders them very cheap of construction.

Whenever it is desired to hang up and support the broom, the clamping orholding plate is moved up to a horizontal positionland the handle of thebroom, fork, or other object is inserted through the opening. The plateand broom'are then permitted to descend, and in swinging to an obliqueposition the edges of the opening of the plate will bind against andbite into the wooden handle of the broom or shovel and hold the same inthat position.

It will thus be seen that I provide an exceedingly cheap, simple, andefticient construction of broom=l1older formed of two'parts only, bothof which coact upon the other for the purpose of carrying out the objectof the invention.

invertible, the base-wall being provided with adiverging walled recessat its central portion and curved upon each side of said recess, to formtwo pointed teeth in the plane of the plate, and the walls opposite saidrecess being contracted.

HARRY F. COOPER.

Witnesses:

JOSHUA COOPER, ALEX. M. COCHRANE.

